Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE WASHINGTON — Over the weekend, President Trump made his most direct — and explicit — criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation with this tweet: “The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my…

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Commercial truck driving has a reputation for grueling hours, weeks away from home, and a burly machismo that isn’t particularly welcoming to women. It’s high time that reputation got a makeover. A 2017 report by the American Trucking Association noted that the industry needs to hire almost 900,000 more drivers to meet rising demand, while the latest jobs report noted that 185,000 jobs have been added over the past four months alone. Bottom…

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Commercial truck driving has a reputation for grueling hours, weeks away from home, and a burly machismo that isn’t particularly welcoming to women. It’s high time that reputation got a makeover. A 2017 report by the American Trucking Association noted that the industry needs to hire almost 900,000 more drivers to meet rising demand, while the latest jobs report noted that 185,000 jobs have been added over the past four months alone. Bottom…

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE President Donald Trump’s job approval is up to 43 percent in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, but Republicans are seeing their 2018 prospects worsen. The poll shows people favor Democratic control of Congress by 10 points – 50 percent to 40 percent – up 6 points from last month, with the GOP losing support among key voter groups. The numbers, combined with results in this week’s special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th…

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE WASHINGTON — Democrats enjoy a 10-point advantage over Republicans in congressional preference for the 2018 midterm elections, even as President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has ticked up, the latest national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds. Fifty percent of registered voters say they prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress, while 40 percent want a GOP-controlled one. That double-digit lead — typically a sign of strong Democratic performance for the upcoming election — is up…

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE WASHINGTON — “Horrible.” “Shameful.” “One of the worst.” Those are just some of the dire ways liberal Democrats have described one of their own members of Congress, who is in the last rounds of the fight of his political life. Even in no-holds-barred Illinois — and even with the most expensive gubernatorial race in history on the ballot — the Democrat-on-Democrat violence in Tuesday’s congressional primary in Chicago’s Southwest suburbs stands out. “I’ve…

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE WASHINGTON — “Horrible.” “Shameful.” “One of the worst.” Those are just some of the dire ways liberal Democrats have described one of their own members of Congress, who is in the last rounds of the fight of his political life. Even in no-holds-barred Illinois — and even with the most expensive gubernatorial race in history on the ballot — the Democrat-on-Democrat violence in Tuesday’s congressional primary in Chicago’s Southwest suburbs stands out. “I’ve…

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE “Saturday Night Live” kicked off this week’s episode with a sketch that skewered the latest round of firings in the Trump administration and featured guest appearances by show veterans. In the cold open, a parody of Anderson Cooper’s show on CNN, 12-time “SNL” host John Goodman was on hand in the role of ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Tillerson, the former head of ExxonMobil, was fired by President Donald Trump this week.…

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Fake news is a human problem. And Silicon Valley is not good at solving human problems. With tech platforms built to supercharge the sharing of information, tech companies, journalists, and academics are scrambling for a solution to the spread of misinformation on the internet. A study published last week in the academic journal Science provided a stark reminder of the challenge posed by misinformation — and why modern technology is making it worse.…

Yellowstone is subject to regular earthquakes beneath the surface, and many believe the constant rumblings are a sign that the supervolcano is about to erupt. In February alone there were almost 300 minor tremors, leading some to think the end is nigh. Yellowstone blows every 1,000,000 years or so, with the last eruption coming more than 700,000 years ago. But a Rabbi in Israel believes the earthquakes are a sign the volcano will blow again soon. Rabbi Yitzchak Batzri, a known Kabbalist from Jerusalem, analysed two biblical texts. The first…